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Public Health Sciences

The Department of Public Health Sciences mission is to provide excellence and leadership in innovative research, education, and community engagement strategies to advance clinical care, patient outcomes, and population health.

We foster research and educational collaborations with clinicians, researchers and faculty members across the University, other professionals, and communities to improve health equity and overall population health and well-being.

How does a researcher find a biostatistician or other research methods collaborator or consultant?

Free service staffed by SOM Public Health Sciences statisticians to address introductory statistics and research methods questions.



PHS Consulting & Collaboration Request Form
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• Contact a PHS faculty member or staff directly
• Contact information on PHS website or UVA directory


• Cancer Center – Biostatistics Shared Resource Request Form
• iTHRIV Research Methods Core / BERD – iTHRIV Portal Consult Request

PHS faculty and staff have expertise in:

  • Clinical trial design and analysis; including pre-clinical, phase I, II & III trials, and data coordinating centers
  • Observational study design; including cohort studies, case-control studies, longitudinal studies, chart reviews
  • Mixed-methods research; study design and analysis
  • Statistical analyses; including survival analysis, longitudinal data, causal inference, Markov models, Bayesian models, meta-analyses
  • Predictive modeling; including development, validation and implementation of algorithms
  • Epidemiological and outcomes research; including use of large registry data (e.g. Medicare, UNOS)
  • Data management and sharing; including SAS, REDCap, OnCore, de-identification, creating public use datasets
  • Statistical Software; including SAS, R, Stata, SPSS, GraphPad Prism, MPlus, Matlab
  • DSMBs; both study statistician and independent statistician serving on the DSMB

Featured Stories

Headshot of Tyler English

Tyler English, GPH Student, Conducts Research with Dr. Kelsie Kelly Smith to Help Public Housing Residents

Tyler English is a third-year student majoring in Global Public Health and Chemistry from the tidewater area of Virginia. He is an active student on grounds and in the local community through research and service. Through his research with Kelsie D. Kelly Smith, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in Public Health Sciences and Associate in the Office of African American Affairs, Tyler has become involved with R3, Residents for Respectful Research.

Tyler English & Dr. Kelly Smith Conduct Research

Group of Student Researchers in Kuhenza, Kenya

Partnership with Kuhenza for the Children: Assistant Professor Kathryn Quissell, PhD Led Research Team to Kenya

This past November 2023, Public Health Sciences Assistant Professor Kathryn Quissell led a research team of four UVA students (Sona Kalatardi, Momore Del-Davidson, Seth Tersteeg, and Meagan Gillette) to Kilifi County, Kenya, on the east coast of the country. They conducted research with Kuhenza For The Children, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that serves to transform harmful perceptions of disabilities into those that enhance the lives of children with disabilities.

Research Team Partnership with Kuhenza in Kenya

Headshot of Grant GianGrasso, MPH candidate

Public Health Researcher Receives Rhodes Scholarship

Grant GianGrasso, a graduate student in the Department of Public Health Sciences, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study for a doctorate in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford. He is one of 32 Americans selected for the program and the 56th Rhodes Scholar for UVA.

Rhodes Scholar Grant GianGrasso

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